Last week the tech internet lit up with a collective nostalgia around the ten-year anniversary of the launch of Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone dramatically changed a lot of things, least of all the way we use phones. It changed the way we use apps, and maps, and cameras, and social media. To call it transformative is an understatement, despite how glitchy the original product actually was.
But I think the more important iPhone launch was the launch of the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011. With the iPhone 4S came three features that were arguably more monumental than anything else we’ve seen in smartphones: iCloud on iOS 5; Siri, Apple’s personified artificial intelligence; and much better camera capabilities, including an eight-megapixel rear...
via The Verge
